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4TH GEN Hack-Check Thread (New Rule Read first post.)

Post here if you're not sure if your Pokemon is legitimate or not, or to help another user. Be sure to follow all other SPPf rules and use this form when posting:
Pokemon Species:
Nickname:
OT:
OT Gender: (red=female, blue=male)
IDno:
Shiny?:
EV's: (if known)
IV's: (if known)
Nature:
Characteristic:
Ability:
Moves:
Level Caught at:
Current Level:
Stats:
Location Caught:
Egg?:
Pokeball Caught In:
Game used to get info:
Any other notes?:

If you can provide a picture with this info and more, that would help out people checking.

Also check the event databases/Pokedex first yourself for some preliminary checking.

Disclaimer: Remember, it is impossible for anyone to truly say a Pokemon is legit unless you caught it yourself. This thread can serve as a guide to tell you if a Pokemon is definitely hacked, or tell you if it looks legit, but hackers can make any Pokemon look legit with enough effort.

1 Sept 12 NEW RULE: This thread is for Pokémon that are currently in a Diamond, Pearl Platinum, HeartGold or Soul Silver box or party. If the Pokémon you're checking is now in Black, White, Black 2 or White 2 box or party, you must use this thread: http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthr...k-Check-Thread

EDIT BY BIG NUTTER (19-Mar-11): Added Game used to get info. -Depending on the game, some Locations in Sinnoh and All Locations in Johto/Kanto will display Faraway Place, instead of "Route 1".

Last edited by Nutter t.KK; 1st September 2012 at 12:19 PM.
Reason: Added a rule

be sure to read the rules of every section before posting ;)

Little Miss Stalinist/Secret Al-Qaeda agents (i.e. Ellie) would be a ***** even if she was a conserative republican. What makes her the way she is happens to be the fact that the webmaster of this site let's her behave like this. (Of course, I would never make a liberal a staff member at any forum I'd be in charge of, regardless.)

Somone sent me this for a my lvl 1 Charmander. I have a question though, if you get a hacked pokemon, what happens?

sorry, no where in the games can you find a legit level 100 garchomp.
If you get a hacked pokemon and use it, your game will implode, and I will hover over you with a knife while you sleep for the next twenty years
~Jenny~

The whole garchomp caught at route 201 is a dead give-away. ^ She was obviously joking, in reality using it is unlikely to cause any damage, normally the only person's game who gets damaged by hacking is the hacker's. (Abuse of an AR is not wise). But it will get you in trouble to use it against other people.

Thank you very much people. I'll keep GARCHOMP in a box by itself and threaten my other pokemon with it when they misbehave. (I woun't put them in the same box though) And then I'll set it freeeee, thanks again

Hi
I have trade a pokemon for a ditto with perfect ivs.
But the ditto is hacked, are the pokemon that i breed with it hacked? or they are legit?

If the Pokemon you breed with it were obtained using a cheating device, then they are hacked. If they were caught in the game without the use of a cheating device, they are legit, and always will be. Breeding a legit Pokemon with a hacked Pokemon doesn't make the legit Pokemon suddenly become hacked.

If the Pokemon you breed with it were obtained using a cheating device, then they are hacked. If they were caught in the game without the use of a cheating device, they are legit, and always will be. Breeding a legit Pokemon with a hacked Pokemon doesn't make the legit Pokemon suddenly become hacked.

I think dragonmaster means, "would the offspring of a pairing between a hacked and legit pokemon be considered hacked or legit?".

It depends I think...

If the hacked pokémon has a heritable and illegal moveset (charmander with dragon dance and metal claw for example) the offspring will be the same as a hack and will certainly be banned from official tournaments. Also if it has an illegal IV distribution and the offspring inherits it, it will also be considered hacked. If the hacked parent is completely within legal parameters, it's unlikely that a hack check will be able to detect that the child is a hack, but I wouldn't discount it.

Furthermore, even if such a pokémon might pass every hack check GameFreak can throw at it and would be considered legal to every extent, the legitimacy is still rather dubious. Like the issue with cloning it'll probably vary from person to person whether or not they consider a hacked-parent pokémon legit or not.

I think dragonmaster means, "would the offspring of a pairing between a hacked and legit pokemon be considered hacked or legit?".

He said, ''are the pokemon that i breed with it hacked.'' Which really makes it sound as if he was referring to the other parent, not the offspring.

If the hacked pokémon has a heritable and illegal moveset (charmander with dragon dance and metal claw for example) the offspring will be the same as a hack and will certainly be banned from official tournaments. Also if it has an illegal IV distribution and the offspring inherits it, it will also be considered hacked.

What is an "illegal IV distribution"? I have never heard of even a hacked Pokemon with an IV greater than 31 in a stat. O_o